Tabaimo was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1975. Then in 1999, she graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design. She now lives and works in Nagano, Japan. Her work consists of ukiyo-e woodcuts, manga, and anime. However, her drawings and animations take a surreal and nightmarish twist. Often involving turtles coming out of toilets, dismembered hands, and bodily mutations. A lot of her work is sight-specific, were it is attuned to the architecture and the viewers within it. Tabaimo starts her work process by drawing out linework on paper and then she scans the images onto her computer. She then colors them and proceeds to make the animation.
Guignorama
Her animation Guignorama is a visualization about the sensations she gets from atopic dermatitis in her hands. Atopic dermatitis causes a person’s skin to itch, when this happens to Tabaimo she feels like insects are crawling around under her skin. In this animation, she wanted to convey the sensation of something living under her skin. This kind of thing can be seen in some of her other works as well. A lot of them show hands scratching each other and/or insects climbing on or out of them.
Yudangami
“I don’t just put the work in front of them and make it a comfortable experience for them – they need to be proactive in their viewing if they are to understand what I’m saying. I think the viewers’ stories themselves are the work, so by making the work together in a sense, by setting up spaces which cause the viewer discomfort — spaces which have elements in them that need to be overcome — the works become a participatory experience.”
“Teleco-soup”
Hanabi-ra
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